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Displaying the Next X Entries After the Current Entry

Problem

You want to display the next x entries which appear after a given entry.

Solution

Let’s say you want to display a blog post, along with a summary of the next 3 posts (in chronological order). Here’s how you can do that, step by step:

  1. Retrieve the IDs of all the entries in the blog, and store them in an array.
  2. Find the current entry ID within the array from step 1.
  3. Retrieve the next 3 entry IDs after the current entry ID.
  4. Retrieve the entries associated with the entry IDs from step 3.

Here’s how that will look in your Twig template:

{# Step 1 #}
{% set everyId = craft.entries.section('blog').limit(null).ids() %}

{# Step 2 #}
{% set currentIndex = everyId | indexOf(entry.id) %}

{% if currentIndex != -1 %}
    {# Step 3 #}
    {% set nextIds = everyId | slice(currentIndex+1, 3) %}

    {# Step 4 #}
    {% set nextEntries = craft.entries.id(nextIds).fixedOrder(true) %}

    {# Output the next 3 entries #}
    {% for nextEntry in nextEntries %}
        <h3>{{ nextEntry.title }}</h3>
    {% endfor %}
{% endif %}

Submitted by Stephen Lewis on 1st February, 2017